Sunday, May 19, 2013

Flashback-Barack
Obama pleaded with Russian President Dmitri Medvedyev to give him time until
the election. After the election, he promised Vladimir Putin, through
Medvedyev, he would be more "flexible."

Now we
know what he meant-Barack Obama is going to spend almost $700 million dollars
of taxpayer money to buy Russianhelicopters for the Afghan Air Force.

“The
Department of Defense (DOD) has notified Congress of its intent to contract
with Rosoboronexport for 30 additional Mi-17 rotary-wing aircraft to support
the Afghanistan National Security Forces (ANSF) Special Mission Wing,” Pentagon
spokesman James Gregory told RIA Novosti in emailed comments.

The
2013 National Defense Authorization Act, approved by Congress last year,
includes an amendment that prohibits financial contracts between the United
States and Rosoboronexport, except when the Secretary of Defense determines
that such arrangements are in the interest of national security.

Congress always gives the Regime an escape hatch. The law stated that Obama
could buy from Rosoboronexport if the Secretary of Defense certified it was in
the interest of National Security.

And of course, the Secretary of Defense,
Chuck Hagel, a man committed to destroying the US military immediately signed
off on that certification.

“Given
current timelines, the department has determined that Rosoboronexport is the
only viable means of meeting ANSF requirements” for the helicopters, Gregory
said.

The
contract totals $690 million, most of which would go to the Russian arms maker,
he added.

Many
of the Afghan forces have already been trained to operate the Russian aircraft.
Switching to a new platform would delay the readiness of their rotary wing
division by at least three years while crews get training and experience on a
new system, Gregory said.

A
bipartisan Congressional group wrote a letter to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
last week in which they objected to the ongoing business relationship between
the Russian arms company and the Pentagon.

“What
is the national security justification of continuing business with
Rosoboronexport?” they asked in the letter.

“Russia
continues to transfer weapons through Rosoboronexport to the regime of Bashar
al-Assad in Syria,” they continued. “Since the Syrian uprising began, Russia
has continued to serve as the Assad regime’s chief supplier of weapons,
enabling the mass murder of Syrian citizens at the hands of their own
government.”

Russia,
however, has insisted that the deliveries are legal under international law and
that it is not supplying Syria with offensive weapons. Moscow has also
questioned the composition and goals of the various armed groups fighting the
Assad regime.

US
Rep. Jim Moran, who co-authored the amendment, said Rosoboronexport had
supplied nearly $1 billion in arms to Assad’s government between 2011 and 2012,
including high-explosive mortars, sniper rifles, ammunition and refurbished
attack helicopters.

Public
records show that some of the representatives who signed the letter and
sponsored the amendment–including Moran, Rep. Kay Granger and Rep. Rosa
DeLauro—have received campaign contributions from US defense contractors.

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